Biography

Nikolas M. Rajkovic is Professor and Chair of International Law at Tilburg University (The Netherlands), and is the former Head of the Department of Public Law and Governance (PLG). He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Law Department of the European University Institute (Italy). Nikolas is senior faculty, and an Academic Council member of the Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP). His current research is at the intersection of International Law, International Relations, and Critical Geography. He is writing a new book forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2025: A Critical Geography of International Law: Theorizing Spaces of Global Authority.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

• Expert Knowledge and Authority in Transformative Times

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• RAJKOVIC, Nikolas Milan (2022), The European Union and critical legal cartography : old geopolitics, worn geopoetry and the return of geopower, Article
• RAJKOVIC, Nikolas Milan; AALBERTS, Tanja E.; GAMMELTOFT-HANSEN, Thomas (2016), Introduction : legality, interdisciplinarity, and the study of practices, Contribution to book
• (2016), The power of legality : practices of international law and their politics, Book
• VENNESSON, Pascal; RAJKOVIC, Nikolas Milan (2012), Warfare accountability : impact of transnational politics, Working Paper
• RAJKOVIC, Nikolas Milan (2013), On fragments and geometry : the international legal order as metaphor and how it matters, Article
• RAJKOVIC, Nikolas Milan (2012), Global law and governmentality : reconceptualizing the 'rule of law' as rule 'through' law, Article